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Solution Brief

Accelerating IT Service Delivery with VMware vRealize™ Automation™ and SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution Brief SimpliVity offers the market-leading hyperconverged infrastructure platform, delivering the best of both worlds: x86 cloud economics and enterprise capabilities, including performance, data protection, data efficiency and global unified management. Designed from the ground up to support IT environments of all sizes at a global level, SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure is ideal for IT organizations and service providers developing private and public clouds. SimpliVity’s technology, OmniStack, powers SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure. The solution runs on white-labeled servers from SimpliVity under the SimpliVity OmniCube brand name or with third-party servers under the SimpliVity OmniStack name. VMware vRealize Automation streamlines the delivery and administration of private, public and hybrid cloud applications and services. The solution helps IT organizations accelerate service velocity, boost business agility and contain operations expenses by automating IT service deployment and lifecycle management tasks. Users (application developers and administrators) turn up compute resources and applications on-demand without IT involvement, using self-service portals and service catalogs. SimpliVity has fully integrated and rigorously tested OmniStack with VMware vRealize Automation, empowering OmniStack customers to enjoy all the features and benefits of VMware’s popular IT service delivery platform. The integrated solution enables IT organizations to mobilize and protect virtualized workloads at scale using existing administrative tools and processes. Users can backup, restore, clone, and move virtual machines on-demand from the familiar VMware vRealize Automation user interface—all under strict administrative control of the central IT organization.

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Key Benefits • Increase service agility – accelerate time-to-market for new applications and services • Reduce OpEx – minimize IT involvement with self-service portals and service catalogs for managing VMs • Improve business innovation – free up IT staff to focus on core business initiatives • Protect investments – extend established administrative systems and practices to SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure • Maintain strict governance – tightly control resource usage and service levels via administrative policies

vRealize Automation Self-Service

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery Application Release Automation Infrastructure Services

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Automating IT Service Delivery

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Solution Brief

Overcoming IT Service Delivery Challenges Many organizations are hampered by siloed IT architectures with disjointed administrative systems. Deploying a new application—provisioning compute, storage and networking resources—can be a manually intensive, time-consuming proposition involving a number of distinct systems and management interfaces. Turning up an IT service to support a new application can take days or even weeks. Many organizations are also hindered by legacy data management and data protection solutions that aren’t well suited for today’s highly virtualized IT environments. Everyday operations—cloning VMs, backing up or restoring virtualized applications—can take hours or even days with inefficient monolithic data architectures designed around individual silos of infrastructure resources. SimpliVity OmniStack eliminates infrastructure cost and complexity by consolidating a variety of IT functions (compute, storage, network switching, replication, backup, etc.) onto commodity virtualized x86 hardware. Unlike legacy IT solutions based on monolithic data architectures, OmniStack performs inline data deduplication, compression, and optimization on all data at inception across all phases of the data lifecycle, all handled with fine data granularity of just 4KB-8KB. By minimizing I/O and network traffic, routine operations like application cloning, backup and restore functions can be completed in seconds or minutes instead of hours or even days. OmniStack streamlines IT operations and accelerates service velocity by unifying administrative tasks; all resources and features are centrally provisioned from the VMware vCenter management console. When integrated with VMware vRealize Automation, OmniStack boosts business agility and improves IT operational efficiencies even further by allowing users to deploy and manage applications and compute services on their own. With vRealize Automation, users can go online, request a new application or compute resource and receive it in a matter of minutes, using simple service catalogs. With SimpliVity, vRealize Automation users can backup, restore, clone, and move VMs in seconds or minutes, directly from the vRealize Automation console, under the strict governance of the IT organization.

Use Cases

1. Remote Office/Branch Office and Multisite Central Management Projects



2. Development, test, and QA projects



3. Application/IT Service Delivery

Solution Summary SimpliVity’s integration with VMware vRealize Automation helps IT organizations improve service agility and contain costs by enabling users to manage virtual compute resources through self-service portals and service catalogs. To learn more, read the SimpliVity OmniStack and VMware vRealize Automation Reference Architecture.

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